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First edition, first printing of Eden's classic take on the challenges of being a television genie in love with an astronaut in the 1960s. Boldly inscribed: To Willie von Straat, who has changed the coagulant-membrane-filtration industry, by Eden's coauthor, Guy Erikson. $6.95

C. Fortenz Milloy

It Is So Interesting, 1837

"Behold in the light borne of the Lord, that which we find, shall be left unfound in time immutable when the night flees daybreak. It is in this morning light when Truth will shout, shout, shout." Fine three-volume edition of Milloy's landmark nonsense work, handsomely bound in nineteenth-century iguana. With engraved portrait. $9.50

Trish St. Hammerapple

What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking So Much All the Time, 2007

One of only four copies printed on the Xerox machine at S&A Metal Forming Machinery, Inc., in New Brunswick, New Jersey, by St. Hammerapple. Late example of the most controversial and important masterwork by this winner of the Constantin Pudârma-Dresleaba Prize for Moldovan-American Violent Science Fiction. One of St. Hammerapple's only known signatures. On anything. Folio. $5.69

Reginald Kipple

The Works of Reginald Kipple, 1999

Only copy of Kipple's 894-page spiral-bound thoughts about everything from the trash-collection districts of unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, to why women are allowed to wear pants these days. A seminal turn-of-the-century volume, recently found by his son Roland under some sheets near a fondue set in Kipple's basement. $2.50

Important contribution to the Vereen canon. The best, most complete volume, which also includes I Was Pippin and I Hate Jeff Goldblum. First edition, one of only twenty-nine copies, illustrated and signed by Robert Guillaume. Includes thirteen copper-engraved folding plates. $12.49

Wilhelm von Straat

Coagulant Membrane Filtration & Me, 1989

If there's one name most people think of when they think of coagulant-membrane filtration, it's Kyle Sommersheld. This book, by Sommersheld's onetime assistant, tells the "true story," in von Straat's words, of the coagulant-membrane-filtration wars of 1982. In the scarce original first-issue dust jacket, warmly inscribed by him: Hagman, you seriously have to give me Barbara's number. $0.99

The Horrid, Immoral Life and Grisly Butchering of Pyotr Petrovin, 1956

A children's classic; first trade edition, among the earliest issues of Alekshaskin's lovely first book, with color illustrations by him. A beautiful copy in the bright original dust jacket. $11

Ron Toofhart

Make Cheese in Your Shoe TODAY! 1994

A title perennially at the top of the American Cheese Society's "must buy" list, this lavishly illustrated volume remains an influential statement on making cheese in your shoe. $2.95

Greta Schurrd

The End of Books, 2009

First edition of the first volume of Schurrd's dystopian fantasy, set in a frighteningly realistic — and eerily immediate — future when the written word has been completely digitized. In Schurrd's darkly comic telling, all information is conveyed through a personal screen called the Pad. As the author's towering devil figure, Jobs, tells his slaves: "All that you need, the Pad will give you. Trust the Pad. The Pad knows you. The Pad loves you." Extremely rare presentation copy; full Moroccan-gilt binding with woodcut illustrations. $1.29

Scads McMartin

She's a Hag, Man, 1977

"In so many ways, she was joyous, and in so many others, she might as well have been a gimp." So begins the title essay in McMartin's Fapper Prize — winning collection. Exceptionally fine first edition with striking sepia-toned photographic plates. Includes "You Didn't Hear It from Me but Eden's Got Scabies," "If You're Really Giving Me a Choice, I'll Have a Shasta Lite," and the surprising "Low-Concentration Phage Ms2 Flocculation Pumps and You" (regarded by some as the "greatest piece of membrane-filtration literature in existence" — Lawrence Hagman), none of which appeared in subsequent editions. $4.99